Purpose Micro-businesses account for a large majority of small and medium enterprises
(SMEs). However, they remain comparatively under-researched. The purpose of this paper …

Interest in the field of entrepreneurship has significantly increased among academics,
practitioners and government officials in the past decade both in the USA and in Europe …

The purpose of this study was to measure the sets of adaptive capacities for Economic
Development and Social Capital in the Norris et al.(2008) community resilience model with …

Research into firm growth has been accumulating at a terrific pace, and Alex Coad s survey
of this multifaceted field provides a detailed, comprehensive overview of the latest …

The absence of any unifying theory means that the literature continues to feature a wide
range of growth measures and model specifications. As a result of this, knowledge …

The paper presents multivariate analysis of the relationship of SME growth with the
acquisition of external business advice, whilst controlling for the influence of SME …

Purpose–This paper seeks to examine the impact of firms' technological capability and other
firm and environmental characteristics on the growth of small and medium‐sized enterprises …

The paper is based on the findings of a research project which aimed to identify the critical
barriers to small business growth and development in Slovenia. The key barriers identified …

This paper provides new empirical evidence on the impact of formal business networking on
small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) growth. Using a large, unbalanced panel data set …

We survey the phenomenon of the growth of firms drawing on literature from economics,
management and sociology. We begin with a review of empirical" stylised facts" before …